Blake Anderson, a 23-year-old entrepreneur, turned his passion for looksmaxxing and charisma into a $10 million business by creating viral mobile apps like RizzGPT, Umax, and Cal AI using ChatGPT and influencer marketing, all while being self-taught in coding.
Experts highlight the potential benefits and risks of using AI digital humans in business, offering cost savings but raising concerns about public distrust, legal liabilities, and ethical issues surrounding the technology's realistic replication of human interactions.
Major Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent, and JD.com reported strong earnings driven by improving consumer spending and the growing impact of AI-powered advertising, despite recent U.S.-China trade tensions and economic headwinds.
Google unveils Gemini 2.0 Flash Preview, a powerful image generation tool with higher rate limits, improved visual quality, and advanced capabilities like recontextualizing products, collaborative editing, and dynamic SKU creation, enabling developers to integrate conversational image generation and editing.
While major tech giants like Apple and Amazon face headwinds from tariffs and waning consumer sentiment, advertising-focused tech businesses remain resilient amid trade wars and economic uncertainty, bucking the downward trend impacting consumer-facing industries.
Snap's revenue exceeded projections, but the company's shares plummeted after it refrained from providing guidance, citing potential advertising demand constraints amid economic uncertainties, leaving investors uncertain about its future prospects.
Perplexity CEO reveals the company's new Comet browser will track users' entire online activity to create detailed profiles for selling hyper-personalized ads, launching in May alongside partnerships with Motorola and potential Samsung deals to challenge Google's dominance.
Meta takes a major step by launching Threads ads globally, allowing businesses to leverage its content filtering system to avoid offensive material, signaling the company's commitment to monetizing its new Twitter-like platform while addressing brand safety concerns.
Apple has modified its AI marketing claims and removed the 'available now' assertion after the National Advertising Division recommended changes, as some promoted features like Priority Notifications and ChatGPT integration were not yet available at the iPhone 16 launch.
The booming global data broker market, fueled by the rising demand for targeted marketing and consumer insights, is projected to soar to an astonishing $616.541 billion by 2030, with North America leading the charge driven by major corporations and vast data generation.